chanterelle

Borrowed from French chanterelle, from New Latin cantharellus, diminutive of Latin cantharus (“drinking vessel”), from Ancient Greek κάνθαρος (kántharos). Probably of Pre-Greek origin, cognate with Akkadian 𒃶𒁺𒊒𒌑 (/⁠kanduru⁠/, “kind of vessel”), from Sumerian 𒄑𒃶𒉡𒌉 (/⁠gannu-tur⁠/, “small vessel; potstand”, literally “little vessel, container, holder”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtʃæntəɹɛl/, /ʃɒntəˈɹɛl/

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chanterelle (plural chanterelles)

1. (mycology) A widely distributed edible mushroom, Cantharellus cibarius, being yellow and trumpet-shaped; or any similar mushroom of the genera Cantharellus, Polyozellus or Gomphus, not all of which are edible.
   • 1979, Angela Carter, ‘The Erl-King’, The Bloody Chamber, Vintage, published 2006, page 98:

     Even the homely wood blewits, that you cook like tripe, with milk and onions, and the egg-yolk yellow chanterelle with its fan-vaulting and faint smell of apricots, all spring up overnight like bubbles of earth, unsustained by nature, existing in a void.

2. (music) The highest string of the violin or similar instrument.
   • 2003, Paul Bowles, edited by Timothy Mangan and Irene Herrmann, Paul Bowles on Music, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 123:

     There were hushed moments of complete beauty when the melody moved out and hung above the chanterelle like a hummingbird poised over a flower.

• (mushroom): girolle

• black chanterelle
• false chanterelle
• funnel chanterelle

• chanterelle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• IPA^(key): /ʃɑ̃.tʁɛl/

From the genus name, New Latin Cantharellus, from Latin cantharus (“drinking vessel”).

chanterelle f (plural chanterelles)

1. (mycology) chanterelle

   Synonym: girolle

• → English: chanterelle
• → Finnish: kantarelli

From chanter +‎ -elle.

chanterelle f (plural chanterelles)

1. (music) chanterelle (highest string of the violin or similar instrument)

• “chanterelle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.